{"id":608,"date":"2026-03-10T15:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=608"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:56:07","slug":"spain-and-england-a-story-of-rivalry-with-total-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Spain and England, a story of rivalry with total balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\"><strong>England against Spain, three duels in the round of 16 <\/strong>of the Champions League and a history in the highest continental competition that after 70 years leaves a balance of absolute equality between the clubs representing the two associations, with one victory ahead for the Anglo-Saxons and total balance in goals.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\"><strong>After 225 matches in the European Cup, England has scored 82 wins, compared to 81 for Spain, <\/strong>leaving 62 times in a draw. In terms of goals, 301 for each of the sides, made up of 12 teams in the case of the English and 13 in the case of the Spanish, despite the fact that in the imagination we usually talk about the variety of English candidates compared to the Spanish.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\"><strong>Barcelona reigns as a team, <\/strong>with 59 duels against teams from England, with a balance of 52.5% victories and 1.97 average goals scored, the best data in teams already with an important background of rivalries. Second is Real Madrid in games, with 56, but in their case with just under 43% wins and 1.63 goals on average. Then come Manchester United (48, 25%, 1.17), Chelsea (41, 39%, 1.49), Liverpool (39, 41%, 1.21), Arsenal (34, 47%, 1.44) and Manchester City (30, 46.7%, 1.70). Above the ten clashes there are also Valencia (24, 29.2%, 0.88), Atl\u00e9tico (22, 22.7%, 0.95), Villarreal (18, 11.1%, 0.5), Sevilla (16, 18.7%, 1) and, with great records, Deportivo (12, 50%, 1.25). The list is completed by the Spanish Athletic (6), Betis (4) and Celta, Girona, Mallorca and Real Sociedad (2) and by the English side Leeds (10), Tottenham (7), Newcastle (6), Leicester (4) and Derby County, Everton and Wolverhampton (2).<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"ue-c-article__subheadline\">Double-leg playoffs<\/h2>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\"><strong>If we include the two-legged playoffs in the equation, <\/strong>including a qualification for the group stage between Everton and Villarreal won by the latter, the balance is much better for the Spanish teams. Of 58 qualifying rounds, the teams from our League passed in 34, while the English did so in 24, with a scoring balance of 173-50, 48 Spanish victories, 39 Anglo-Saxon ones and 29 draws. In the last five years, England has won more matches in crosses (11 out of 10), but Spain has been more successful in the end, with 8 passes compared to 6.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\"><strong>Los <em>cocos <\/em>They are without a doubt Real Madrid and Barcelona. <\/strong>The Madridistas passed in 14 of their 21 ties (66.7%), compared to 12 of 17 of the Barcelona fans (70.6%). Arsenal (5 out of 9) and Chelsea (5 out of 12) are the two best representatives of their tournament. They are followed by Atl\u00e9tico (4 out of 6), Liverpool (4 out of 8) and Manchester United (4 out of 11). City remains at 3 out of 9, Tottenham lost the only one they played and for Newcastle it will be the debut.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\"><strong>And if, finally, we limit the history to the round of 16, <\/strong>Spain put its teams in the quarterfinals 12 times compared to England&#8217;s 9. Barcelona did it in 6 of their 8 appearances, compared to 3 of 5 for Liverpool and 3 of 6 for Real Madrid. Atl\u00e9tico did it 2 out of 3, the same classifications as Arsenal and Chelsea, but in their cases with four appearances in this round.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England against Spain, three duels in the round of 16 of the Champions League and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}